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23 NOV 08
The American Ambassador presents his compliments
to the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs and with
reference to his Note to the Foreign Office of the 5th.
of August last, begs to state that the Note in question
should read: -
"My Government has named Bishop Brent in the place
of the Honourable Thomas Burke as Senior American Com-
missioner on the Joint International Opium Commission".
The name Dr. Charles D. Tenney was the result of
a mistranslation of a cipher telegram, and though Dr.
Tenney is still one of the American Commissioners he is
not the Chief Commissioner, and the Honourable Thomas
Burke is no longer a member of the Commission.
The Commission as at present constituted would
therefore
be as follows:-
Bishop Charles H. Brent, Chief Commissioner.
Dr. Charles D. Tenney.
Dr. Hamilton Wright.
American Embassy,
London.
November 16th, 1908.